City of Lancaster, PA
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2023-02-28
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Part II, General Legislation
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Chapter 285 Vehicles and Traffic
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Article X Keys in Unattended Vehicles
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Administrative Departments and Bureaus
- Ch 9 Annexations
- Ch 13 Assessment
- Ch 17 Authorities, Municipal
- Ch 22 Boards, Commissions, Etc.
- Ch 26 Bonds
- Ch 30 Budgets and Control
- Ch 32 Central Market Trust
- Ch 34 Civil Service
- Ch 36 Claims, Municipal
- Ch 42 Fire Bureau
- Ch 44 Flags
- Ch 48 Land Bank Authority
- Ch 55 Officers and Employees
- Ch 59 Ordinances and Resolutions
- Ch 64 Pensions and Retirement
- Ch 67 Police Bureau
- Ch 71 Social Security
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 76 Adult Entertainment
- Ch 80 Advertising and Bill Posting
- Ch 84 Alarms
- Ch 88 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 92 Amusements and Amusement Devices
- Ch 96 Animals
- Ch 100 Bicycles
- Ch 105 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 109 Building Construction and Floodplain Management
- Ch 112 Buildings, Naming of
- Ch 113 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 114 Business Registration
- Ch 116 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 117 Contractors
- Ch 121 Curfew
- Ch 125 Discrimination
- Ch 129 Disorderly Conduct
- Ch 132 Drugs and Drug Paraphernalia
- Ch 134 (Reserved)
- Ch 136 Emergency Management
- Ch 140 Firearms and Weapons
- Ch 142 Fire Prevention
- Ch 143 Fireworks
- Ch 146 Graffiti
- Ch 150 Health Standards
- Ch 155 Historic Districts
- Ch 169 Housing
- Ch 173 Insurance
- Ch 177 Junkyards
- Ch 182 Lead Poisoning Prevention and Lead Hazard Control
- Ch 186 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 190 (Reserved)
- Ch 192 Meat and Meat Products
- Ch 194 Milk and Milk Products
- Ch 198 Noise
- Ch 200 Panhandling
- Ch 202 Parking Lots
- Ch 210 Parks
- Ch 213 Personal Delivery Devices
- Ch 215 Plumbing
- Ch 219 Property, Personal
- Ch 223 Property Maintenance
- Ch 228 Public Markets
- Ch 229 Public Nuisances
- Ch 232 Real Property, Sale of
- Ch 236 Refrigerators, Abandoned
- Ch 238 Rental Property
- Ch 240 Restaurants
- Ch 243 (Reserved)
- Ch 249 Sewers
- Ch 255 Signs
- Ch 256 Skateboards
- Ch 258 Solid Waste
- Ch 260 Stormwater Management
- Ch 261 Stormwater Management Fee
- Ch 262 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 263 Right-Of-Way Management
- Ch 265 Subdivision and Land Development
- Ch 267 Swimming Pools
- Ch 269 Tattoos and Body Piercings
- Ch 270 Taxation
- Ch 271 Telephone Companies
- Ch 273 Trees
- Ch 279 Utilities
- Ch 282 Vacant and Abandoned Property
- Ch 285 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 285 Art X Keys in Unattended Vehicles
- § 285-105 Leaving key in lock.
- § 285-106 Removal of key by police officer; notice of violation.
- § 285-107 Owner responsible.
- § 285-108 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 287 Vehicles for Hire
- Ch 288 Vehicles, Hazardous
- Ch 291 Vending
- Ch 293 Violation Tickets
- Ch 295 Water
- Ch 300 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A305 Cable Television Franchise
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted as Article 519 of the Codified Ordinances]
The owner or person in charge of any motor vehicle
shall not permit it to stand unattended on any street, private driveway,
public or private parking lot, used or new car sales lot or any other
unattended open space which is readily accessible to any person without
having locked the ignition of such motor vehicle and removed the ignition
key from its lock.
Any police officer of the City who finds a motor vehicle left in the condition set forth in § 285-105 may immediately lock such vehicle's ignition, remove the key from the lock and deliver it to the officer in charge at the Police Station in the Public Safety Building. The police officer shall leave a notice of any violation found in a conspicuous place on such vehicle, which notice shall also state where the ignition key has been taken and held.
The registered owner of a vehicle found in violation
of this article shall be prima facie responsible for such violation.
[Amended 11-15-2005 by Ord. No. 19-2005]
Whoever violates any provision of this article shall be fined $25 for the first offense and $50 for each subsequent offense, the same to be levied and paid in accordance with the provisions of § 285-12.
